Field School at the Biface III Site (12MI18) 1981-1982

Summary

The Biface III Site (12MI18) was investigated under the leadership of Dr. B.K. Swartz, Jr. This investigation was conducted under permit number DACW-27-3-82-17. A final report draft, authored by Mary Lou James and Carl D. Ebbert, is present in the collection.

From June 9th to July 7th of 1982, the sixteenth Annual Ball State University Archaeological Field School excavated the Biface III Site located near Peru, Indiana in the Mississinewa Reservoir drainage. This field work was carried out by undergraduate students Mary Lou James, Dawn E. Pepper, Carl D. Ebbert, Walter Brumfield, Jo Goldberg, Julia Washburn and Barbara Lumbis. A previous surface collection of the site was performed by William R. Wepler and Donald R. Cochran in 1981 under permit number DACW-27-4-81-96.

A large quantity of Liston Creek flakes were found on the site, indicating the source of chert in the immediate area was being utilized. The large quantity of fire-cracked rock in association with heat treated Liston Creek chert may be of significance. A Kramer-like point fragment was found in two pieces in two different areas of the excavation. The basal-end was found in pit S2-W0, and the medial segment was found in pit N1-E1. This point type occurs in the Late Archaic to Early Woodland period (James and Ebbert N.D.).

The sites investigated as part of this field school are located in Huntington, Miami, and Wabash counties.

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Documents

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in May 2011. The VCP St. Louis laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through Brockington and Associates, Inc., an archaeological contract firm located in Norcross, Georgia.
The procedures employed to re-house the...

This collection is referred to as “Field School at the Biface III Site (12MI18) 1981-1982.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is three and a quarter (3.25) linear inches.
There are several oversized maps and oversized artifact sketch figures contained in the collection. In addition, one color photographic slide of a rocky area of the site is included. These materials were moved to the appropriate...

Datasets

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in May 2011. The VCP St. Louis laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through Brockington and Associates, Inc., an archaeological contract firm located in Norcross, Georgia.
The procedures employed to re-house the...